Re: [Soekris] *BSD vs Linux

2011-04-15 Thread Steve Clark
On 04/14/2011 11:25 AM, Bayard Bell wrote: On 14 Apr 2011, at 16:05, Steve Clark wrote: On 04/14/2011 10:04 AM, Marc Balmer wrote: Am 13.04.11 04:08, schrieb Ryan Whelan: Watching the mailing list, it -seems- like BSDs are more prevalent on the soekris platforms then Linux. I've only ever

Re: [Soekris] *BSD vs Linux

2011-04-14 Thread Steve Clark
On 04/14/2011 10:04 AM, Marc Balmer wrote: Am 13.04.11 04:08, schrieb Ryan Whelan: Watching the mailing list, it -seems- like BSDs are more prevalent on the soekris platforms then Linux. I've only ever used Linux ( a custom Buildroot build and hand-rolled kernel ). I am NOT trying to troll,

Re: [Soekris] *BSD vs Linux

2011-04-14 Thread Steve Clark
On 04/14/2011 11:19 AM, J Sisson wrote: On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 10:05 AM, Steve Clarkscl...@netwolves.com wrote: I guess that attitude is ok if you always want to be a taker and never a giver. This is an idiotic assumption. I know tons of BSD developers who give their code away freely just

Re: [Soekris] *BSD vs Linux

2011-04-14 Thread Steve Clark
On 04/14/2011 11:38 AM, der Mouse wrote: Here is why _we_ use *BSD: Because the license matters for us. I guess that attitude is ok if you always want to be a taker and never a giver. I avoid the GPL when feasible. The only GPLed software I write is modifications to already-infected

Re: [Soekris] *BSD vs Linux

2011-04-14 Thread Steve Clark
to avoid. Until Steve Clark came along. The rest of this topic will likely be useless now. Til I came along I only responded to someone who complained about the GPL vs BSD license. I didn't bring it up -- Stephen Clark *NetWolves* Sr. Software Engineer III Phone: 813-579-3200 Fax: 813

Re: [Soekris] *BSD vs Linux

2011-04-14 Thread Steve Clark
On 04/14/2011 10:04 AM, Marc Balmer wrote: Am 13.04.11 04:08, schrieb Ryan Whelan: Watching the mailing list, it -seems- like BSDs are more prevalent on the soekris platforms then Linux. I've only ever used Linux ( a custom Buildroot build and hand-rolled kernel ). I am NOT trying to troll,

Re: [Soekris] Life expectancy of a compact flash?

2011-04-12 Thread Steve Clark
On 04/12/2011 02:51 PM, Bryan Irvine wrote: On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 11:34 AM, Ed Fleckoedfle...@gmail.com wrote: Hi folks, When reading posts about setting up a Soekris using a compact flash, I see a lot of people saying that a compact flash cannot withstand a lot of writing before failing.

Re: [Soekris] Life expectancy of a compact flash?

2011-04-12 Thread Steve Clark
On 04/12/2011 02:52 PM, Javier Reyna Padilla wrote: You use ram disks for the partitions with write activities, for example /etc and /var if you want to use FBSD you can use NanoBSD 2011/4/12 Nick Knightn...@omniis.com I think it is in the order of 100,000 writes, reads are not an issue. So

Re: [Soekris] Writing a BIOS config from cmd line

2009-10-20 Thread Steve Clark
On 10/20/2009 04:12 PM, Graham Menhennitt wrote: Erik M. Cummings wrote: That's what I have put together right now and it works for my test bench. Works okay, but doesn't scale at all. I would need a whole other PC in the field with each of these in order to do that. Erik On Oct 19,

Re: [Soekris] Net5501 and Crux

2009-05-01 Thread Steve Clark
Bill Maas wrote: On Fri, 2009-05-01 at 03:28 -0800, TechKid PC wrote: From: Bill Maas b...@stsx.org Sent: Friday, May 01, 2009 1:22 AM On Thu, 2009-04-30 at 21:58 -0800, TechKid PC wrote: I finally have the necessary cables and am able to access the comBIOS via a

Re: [Soekris] net5501 boot from Transcend CF solved

2009-02-17 Thread Steve Clark
Tamas Vincze wrote: Hi, I have Transcend 266x CF card that didn't work with the net5501 as I e-mailed the list about a month ago. I purchased a CF-to-IDE adapter and with that the same CF card worked! Here came the idea: the adapter had a Master/Slave jumper, why not hack one onto the

Re: [Soekris] CF boot problem

2009-01-19 Thread Steve Clark
Tamas Vincze wrote: Hi, I purchased a 2GB Transcend CF card (TS2GCF266) for use with net5501 and copied one of the EMBCop images to it. comBIOS 1.33 hasn't recognized the card, but after flashing it to 1.33c the card showed up. However GRUB won't auto-boot: it always goes to the grub

Re: [Soekris] Only one Network interface working after a cold boot

2009-01-13 Thread Steve Clark
Richard Verwayen wrote: Hi all! I got two soekris net5501-60 (Which should be build in December according to the vendor) recently. Now I am facing a bit of trouble: After a cold boot (systems powerless for more than 18h), only one out of 4 network interfaces show any activity

Re: [Soekris] SATA question

2008-10-29 Thread Steve Clark
René Luckow wrote: Hi AFAIK the soekris cases are not metric so neither are the standoffs. On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 9:41 AM, Andreas Schweigstill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello! 'Jussi Peltola' schrieb: The drive mounting plate is screwed on to stand-offs that replace the screws used to

Re: [Soekris] 5501 getting stuck on coldboot

2008-10-07 Thread Steve Clark
Mike Tancsa wrote: At 09:22 AM 10/7/2008, Steve Clark wrote: This is real problem. My company was thinking of switching to the Soekris box, we currently have over 500 pc based units in the field, but Soekris has been less than repsonsive in fixing this issue. Hope you have better luck than

[Soekris] net5501 watchdog timer?

2008-08-21 Thread Steve Clark
Hello, Does the net5501 have a watchdog timer. If so does anyone have any linux or freebsd code to start it, etc. Thanks, Steve ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech

Re: [Soekris] NET5501 Boot Problem

2008-07-29 Thread Steve Clark
Soekris says use Sandisk but a 4 GB sandisk CF cost $10 more and is half as fast as the Transcend - 20mbs vs 40mbs. Steve Steve Clark wrote: Hello, Well I tried 1.33c on my 5501 with my Transcend TS4GCF266 CF and it made things worst. I was unable to get FreeBSD to boot - it always hangs

Re: [Soekris] NET5501 Boot Problem

2008-07-29 Thread Steve Clark
Hello, Again replying to my own E-Mail - I attached the SYBA IDE2UCF1 to the Net 5501 ide interface it also booted without the slightest problem using the Transcend CF. Steve Steve Clark wrote: Hello, I have more information on the Soekris 5501 boot problem using a Transcend TS4GCF266 CF

[Soekris] what type of sandisk cf

2008-07-24 Thread Steve Clark
Hello, What kind of Sandisk CF have users found to be reliable using as a SSD replacement. I am currently experimenting with a Transcend TS4GCF266 CF (~$40.00) that is fast 233x and claims to have built in wear leveling. So far other than having to so a soft reboot after a cold poweron boot

Re: [Soekris] Can't cold boot new 5501

2008-07-22 Thread Steve Clark
Chris Babcock wrote: Scott Reber wrote: I am not able to get m0n0wall 1.3b13 to cold boot on a Soekris 5501 with combios 1.33c. I just received two of these units today and both exhibit the same symptoms. M0n0wall begins to boot and pauses for quite a while detecting ata0 and apparently

Re: [Soekris] NET5501 Boot Problem

2008-07-17 Thread Steve Clark
Wim Vandeputte mailinglist only wrote: hey, This is actually the same error you see with FreeBSD and OpenBSD when the BIOS has problems recognising the CF. You can spot it when there is a 20 second delay when detecting the CF and when the bootloader tries any disk activity comBIOS ver.

Re: [Soekris] Silicon Systems CF and working SATA

2008-07-16 Thread Steve Clark
Chris Babcock wrote: Ok, so I'm looking for a version of combios for a net5501-70 that works with both a Silicon Systems CF card and a attached SATA drive. I believe that 1.33c is supposed to work with both and have the detection issue fixed, but can somebody confirm this? Also, the

[Soekris] combios

2008-07-11 Thread Steve Clark
where is combios 1.33c The requested URL /software/b5501_133c.bin was not found on this server. ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech